Artists have always been resourceful and resilient during times of crisis. Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele’s creative bursts before their untimely deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic echo our current times. Official War artists such as Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland...
Edward Colston Four Opt For Trial By Jury The four people charged with criminal damage for pulling down a bronze statue of slave trader Edward Colston and dumping it in Bristol harbour have pleaded not guilty. Jake Skuse, 36, Rhiannon Graham, 29, Milo Ponsford, 25,...
Henry Darger was born in 1892 in Chicago, Illinois. He led a very isolated life and had no close relatives to speak of. After being orphaned and institutionalised as a child, being subject to the horrific traumas that came with that, he became reclusive, withdrawn and...
John Lennon's Death 40 Years On Marked Forty years ago today, December 8th 1980, the musician, writer and visual artist John Lennon was shot dead in front of his wife, the Conceptual Artist Yoko Ono, by the entrance of their home in the Dakota building in New York....
Performance artist, Marina Abramović, will premiere a new film version of her iconic opera, The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas (2020), on a series of massive screens at the entrance to Tottenham Court Road Station. The free event will take place next year in central...
Jock McFadyen is the psycho-geographer of the visual art world. ‘The laureate’, as Ian Sinclair has suggested, ‘of stagnant canals, filling stations and night football pitches’. His natural milieu is the East End where he’s lived for many years. He inhabits its...
Congratulations to the Guyana-born British artist Frank Bowling Knighted In Queen's Birthday Honours List 2020. He now becomes Sir Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling Kt ,OBE, RA. His paintings relate to Abstract expressionism, Color Field painting and Lyrical...
The Frieze London 2020 platform for modern and contemporary art has announced the opening of both Frieze and Frieze Masters for their online London edition. Due to the COVID pandemic, the closest you will get to the actual artwork is by visiting the Frieze Sculpture...
Lee Cavaliere is currently experiencing the busiest point of his career. He has worked tirelessly through the COVID crisis, as founder of The Sixteen Trust, an arts and education charity which has launched a mentoring programme bringing art professionals into schools...